Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

Garth Holsinger, VP of Global Sales and Business Development, Klout. GroupPrice was recently named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Companies for 2011. Krishna will speak about the future of mobile advertising, and how to maximize its potential. Robyn Ward, Director of Sales and Business Development, Betterworks.

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SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2013

RxVantage (www.rxvantage.com), based in Los Angeles, is looking to tackle that huge market with its medical scheduling software for pharmaceutical and medical sales reps and medical offices, and is venture backed by Slater Technology Fund and Javelin Venture Partners. Dan Gilman: We''re releasing a mobile app, which will be coming out soon.

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Marketing Software Education Startup 231

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. HauteLook was acquired for $270M in 2011 by Nordstrom. The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of. LiveNation.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Time will tell. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joey Flores, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Earbits (a Y Combinator Winter 2011 company). They provide commercial-free streaming music on Earbits.com, Earbits Mobile Radio apps, and across a variety of affiliate website partners. When: Thursday, November 10, 2011 – 7-9pm. Tickets: $10.00

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 64

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

As Google starts offering more consumer products (read: mobile devices) I assure you they will find ways to take customer service calls from you. According to Forrester Research (2011 report) 77% users who abandoned an online purchase cite the inability to speak to some as their primary reason for leaving. But What About Mobile?

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Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way. We can tell that they're using a voice-over-IP phone number or prepaid mobile phone, and we might not allow them to register because their experience is that a majority of their fraudulent activity comes from those type of phone numbers.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joey Flores, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Earbits (a Y Combinator Winter 2011 company). They provide commercial-free streaming music on Earbits.com, Earbits Mobile Radio apps, and across a variety of affiliate website partners. When: Thursday, November 10, 2011 – 7-9pm. Tickets: $10.00

Incubator 40

Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

It's a slightly different formula from the first location, as it is focused on early stage mobile apps and Internet. After the sale, Rory [Editor's note: Rory Moore] asked me if I wanted to take this to the next level. I jumped in at the end of 2010, just as the majority of investments happened--I think $50M to $52M came in 2011.

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Incubator San Diego Technical Review Development Team Review 212

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

It all came together in the fall of last year, and we technically started the company in October of 2011. The next wave with the first baby steps in social shopping, like Gilt and other flash sales, ShoeMint, ShoeDazzle, the other Mint sites, subscription models. What's your role now at Crosscut? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Commerce Design Media 182

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit. Bobby’s strong sales acumen, genuine charisma and leadership abilities make him an invaluable asset to the founding team.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Our list was far from definitive, but some noteworthy outcomes from last year’s selection suggest we’re taking the right approach: — Cypher Genomics , founded in 2011 with software to rapidly identify the genetic variations amid billions of gigabases of genome sequencing data, sold last November to San Diego’s Human Longevity.

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San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

IPPLEX researches and develops pioneering cross-platform applications and services focused on interactive communication – between people and the information, contacts and places they need to access through their mobile phone, PC, and other devices. When: Thursday, July 14th, 2011 – 6:00 p.m. wonder what that might be? Event Details.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 9, 2011

iGottaGuide’s competitors are focused on providing visitors with local insights via mobile applications – but who wants their smartphone to direct them around the Big Apple while on vacation! With mobile now playing a big part in the space, where you do you see the traveling/touring industry heading? Where have you struggled?

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Startup Guide Entrepreneur Ideas 63

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MAY 23, 2012

By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha served a lengthy tenure fulfilling multiple roles at Wells Fargo, most recently as VP of Consumer Financial Services, where she led the mobile payments strategy and implementation for the credit card business. She began her career as an engineer at Cisco Systems and later cofounded a mobile gaming company.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider is the CEO of Mobile Roadie , the leading self-service mobile app engagement platform. ThinkNear helps you target mobile ads to consumers at precise locations.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

He left traditional media at the top of his game to be the founding CEO of Next New Networks, one of the first digital video startups, backed by Spark Capital and bought by YouTube in 2011. We* are now the mainstream market and we’re bringing more to your mobile phones and living rooms. (We There is no more Latino-only market.

Media 269

Media Content Course Technical Review 269

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In Santa Monica, the median price of homes jumped 16% in the first eight months of 2012 compared with 2011, after a 9% decline over the same period the year before, according to Multiple Listing Service data compiled by Paul Habibi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. million in sales every year for just a 1-second page delay. It’s also necessary to note that a poor mobile website experience can impact your customers’ perception of and loyalty to your brand. Mobile delivery possibly with slow connections?

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Startup SEO CTO Coach Web 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. But one common theme I’m hearing from there in 2011 is that it’s impossible to recruit.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. August 2011. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices and TVs will merge. But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. So entering 2011 why does this matter? Enter Google.

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